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reatj81
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« on: December 17, 2012, 04:40:26 am » |
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You'll all have very good points. I think in years past other breeds were introduced into a line to try and fill a void. But more often than not that cross was kept hush, hush. Over time and correct breading desired traits were achieved, while hiding the appearance of the outcross. For instance if you bread white rabbits and wanted them bigger. Well let's just say pink rabbits were bigger, you could make cross of white & pink achieving larger rabbits & and over a few generations you could have them all white again and larger threw selective breading!
Most of my dogs are around 1/4 hound. Some of the pups show more hound traits than others. If wanted to I could cull the ones that showed the hound ear. Then cull by hunting abilities, keeping only the best. And stay breading within the line and within a few generations it would be hard to see the hound in them. But they would still be around 1/4 hound, with the desired traits. Webster defines cur dog---- mongrel of inferior breeding---- so is that saying they are a cross? I believe so until the desired traits were achieved then line bread to lock the gens down.
Not picking on curs just an example, of a cross bread purified over the last 200 yrs. Not saying I am correct, just a thought.
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